The colts can potentially become stallions. Finally, add decision-making driven by greed rather than concern for the health and safety of the horses, the riders and the public. Start with a culture of doping that has been pervasive for decades, then throw in a lack of infrastructure (and will) to make and enforce rules. And if one of them tests positive for anything, the Breeders’ Cup board members will drop the hammer on Baffert. They will have extra eyes surveilling them. Instead the organization put Baffert on what amounts to the “double secret probation” Dean Wormer handed down to the Delta fraternity in the movie “Animal House.”īaffert’s horses, the organization said, will be tested more often than his competitors’. What did that review entail? Did any board members with financial ties to Baffert - all but two of the 14 - recuse themselves from deciding his fate?ĭrew Fleming, the Breeders’ Cup president and chief executive, declined to answer detailed questions from The New York Times, as did individual board members.
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